After a number of days of confusion and uncertainty, a number of mainstream information shops confirmed that former UFC and PRIDE fighter Phil Baroni had been arrested in Mexico for allegedly murdering his girlfriend. The New York Publish, CBS Information, and The Related Press verified verified MMA Mania’s preliminary report sourced from Tribuna De La Bahia.
Based on police paperwork, Baroni doesn’t deny that he killed his companion, whose full title has nonetheless not been launched. Nevertheless, he claims her loss of life was an accident after he threw her right into a bathe throughout an argument over infidelity.
Baroni says the girl hit her head when he threw her, after which hit her head once more as she fell to the bottom. He says he helped her to their resort mattress after which went to get beer and cigarettes. When he returned she was unconscious. He flagged down police, who discovered the sufferer with “a number of indicators of beatings” and “no very important indicators.”
New information from ESPN Desportes reporter Carlos Contreras Legaspi shares an replace on Baroni, who has been moved from a short lived jail cell into the notoriously violent CERESO Estatal No. 3 jail the place 19 individuals died throughout a jail break final week. He faces a 30 to 50 yr sentence for homicide.
“UPDATE on the Phil Baroni case,” Legaspi wrote on Twitter. “The previous Satisfaction/SF/UFC fighter has been transported to Tepic, capital of Nayarit, the place he’s now in a State Jail (CERESO). His listening to can be on Monday the place a decide will decide his authorized standing. If responsible, sentence goes from 30-50 years.”
Legaspi clarified in one other tweet that the decide can be figuring out if the proof within the case meets the usual for a homicide trial, which might happen in a while.
One piece of proof that received’t play properly for Baroni is pictures taken by the police of his arms outdoors his resort room. His proper hand seems crimson and swollen alongside his knuckles.
Phil Baroni is an skilled journeyman of fight sports activities and has fought for practically each main MMA group over his 20 yr profession. Following his semi-retirement from the game in 2014, “The New York Dangerous Ass” made a swap to professional wrestling, becoming a member of a tag workforce with UFC pioneer Stephan Bonnar. Whereas the workforce confirmed potential, Baroni’s erratic habits quickly derailed the brand new profession.
Former UFC champion and professional wrestler Josh Barnett believes the habits he witnessed in Baroni over latest years was a results of persistent traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) suffered from preventing.
“I’ve seen the decline from the person I’ve been mates with for therefore lengthy to the place he was final I noticed him, and it’s heartbreaking,” Barnett wrote. “Now with what has occurred in Mexico it’s simply so terrible.”
